Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 24/02/2025. The Supreme Court (SC), February 24, 2025 has directed all states to file their affidavits addressing concerns raised about antiretroviral therapy (ART) drugs …
Gap between TB incidence and notifications is very large in India; rising numbers probably indicate better reporting rather than higher incidence of disease After years of being criticised for not doing enough on tuberculosis, India got a pat on the back this week from the World Health Organisation for increasing …
Domestic resources accounted for 74% of the $525 million that was spent in India last year India’s domestic budget for fighting tuberculosis showed a dramatic jump from about ₹700 crore in 2015 to ₹2,500 crore last year, according to a report from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Typically most of …
Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have saved an estimated 53 million lives since 2000 and reduced the TB mortality rate by 37%, according to the Global TB Report 2017. Despite these achievements, the latest picture is grim. TB remains the top infectious killer in 2016. TB is also the …
They will be given fixed drug combinations on a daily basis Health Minister Malladi Krishna Rao on Wednesday inaugurated the daily regimen of administering medication to tuberculosis patients under the Revised National TB Control Programme at the Government General Hospital here. According to a release, under the new daily drug …
Order of the Madras High Court in the matter of Laborate Pharmaceutical India Vs Union Of India dated 24/10/2017 regarding use of drug Diclofenac for human use. Madras High Court dismisses the plea of the drug industry about the importance of multi dose packs of diclofenac for treatment of human …
Delay in diagnosis, patients leave State without treatment The Health Department has reportedly not been able to effectively deal with the malaria cases among migrant labourers. There has been an inordinate delay in diagnosis on the one hand and the patients are found to be leaving the State without completing …
These are either underused, overused or misused: Study. Hyderabad: Seventy-five per cent of samples collected by a medical college in the city for diagnosing the urinary tract infections (UTIs) found that there was no bacterial growth in urine culture due to indiscriminate use of antibiotics to treat infection. Urinary tract …
The rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP vaccine prevented Ebola virus disease when used at 2 × 107 plaque-forming units (PFU) in a trial in Guinea. This study provides further safety and immunogenicity data. Original Source
BHUBANESWAR: THE Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has rapped Odisha Government for failing to develop adequate infrastructure in health and social sectors.As per the Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS), all hospitals providing service to neonates should have a 10-bed Newborn Care Ward (NCW) but there was no NCW in any …
A report, Antibacterial agents in clinical development – an analysis of the antibacterial clinical development pipeline, including tuberculosis, launched by WHO shows a serious lack of new antibiotics under development to combat the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Most of the drugs currently in the clinical pipeline are modifications of …
The objective of the study was to describe the secular trends for drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR TB) and to identify unique characteristics of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) in rural China. Original Source
As more than a million Egyptians, Ahmed Nada suffered from hepatitis C before finding the path to healing in a country that has become a global destination for patients seeking treatment. The 31-year-old man contracted the disease by accident when he wanted to donate his blood. Previously, hepatitis C contamination, …
FANG YUAN gazes around his crowded shop and says happily that business is booming. He has a reliable supplier in Russia and hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are queuing up to buy what he sells: antlers. Tangles of them lie in huge meshes on the floor. Thousands more, sliced into discs, …
Multi-drug resistant bacteria are moving from poultry enclosures to agricultural fields, says study India’s poultry farms maybe breeding grounds for multi-drug resistant bacteria, says a study conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE). That misusing antibiotics has quickened drug resistance in frontline medicines used for tuberculosis and pneumonia …
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzania is set to launch the world’s largest drone delivery network in January, with drones parachuting blood and medicines out of the skies to save the lives of women giving birth and children struck by malaria, in a country larger than Nigeria. California’s Zipline will …
Primaquine is the only licensed drug for eradicating Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites and, therefore, preventing relapses of vivax malaria. It is a vital component of global malaria elimination efforts. Primaquine is efficacious when supervised in clinical trials, but its effectiveness in real-world settings is unknown. We aimed to determine whether unsupervised …
A study which appeared in the National Centre for Biotechnology Information’s (NCBI) journal suggests that constant surveillance and data gathering of patients who have consumed Oseltamivir has to be undertaken and continuously updated. During his visit to isolation wards in Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Ahmedabad, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on …
Anti-inflammatory drugs could cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes, a study of 10,000 patients suggests. A trial of the drug canakinumab could represent the biggest breakthrough in treatment since the advent of statins to lower cholesterol, its authors say. The study reported a 15% reduction in the risk …
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasing in a wide range of pathogens, causing morbidity and mortality globally, and threatening modern medicine. While the long-term impact of AMR on human societies remains uncertain, the conservation of antimicrobials’ effectiveness has become an urgent priority. Tackling this ubiquitous problem requires coordination among countries and …
After years of constant denial, it appears that in the draft policy, the government is finally ready to accept that there is a problem with the drugs that are manufactured and sold in India. The Draft Pharmaceutical Policy 2017, prepared by the Department of Pharmaceuticals, has an entire paragraph dedicated …
